Words below are from the sheet music at the University of Maine

CAROLINA SUNSHINE
Words by Walter Hirsch, music by Erwin R. Schmidt. ©1919.

Down in Carolina where the sunbeams play,
Down where all the world seems bright,
Pickaninnies romping all the day
In the cotton fields of white.
How my heart is yearning to be there once more, just to hear the darkies’ song.
Carolina sunshine calls me back to the place where I belong.

CHORUS: Carolina sun, I’m lonesome; Carolina sun, I’m blue.
When the day is done, I’m pining for a sight of you.
Makes no diff’rence where I wander, any place I chance to roam,
When the golden sun sinks in the west, then I think of home.

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The Internet Archive has recordings by:
Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra (1919)
Vernon Dalhart (1920)
Sterling Trio (1919)